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Camelot is to press the button on a £100 million expansion of its lottery terminal network after winning a four-year extension to its licence to run the National Lottery.

The decision, which pushes Camelot’s tenure out to 2023, will enable the group to install another 8,000 terminals, providing it with fresh ammunition in its battle with Richard Desmond’s Health Lottery.

The National Lottery Commission made the decision without a tender process under a clause in the third licence, which was awarded in 2009, that allows it to grant an extension to accommodate “a significant unanticipated investment opportunity”.